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Getting Even / Easy Money
GETTING EVEN
Judy is an innocent 16-year-old when she is raped by her older brother—a drunken, vicious rape. It leaves her emotionally scarred, bitter and resentful, broken inside. She turns to alcohol to deaden her pain, but that only leads to a second rape. Judy begins to hate men. And as time goes on, she moves into a cabin on the California coast, and leads a solitary life. But life continues to deal her some cruel blows, and eventually her hatred of men takes a new turn. She begins to excise the pain by killing it. And now Judy is on her third murder. It gets a little easier each time.
EASY MONEY
Charley doesn’t expect more than a cheap meal when he stops at the roadhouse, so finding Janie is a real bonus. She is exactly the kind of girl he is looking for to run a blackmail scam down in Miami Beach. Janie is 23 but looks like she could easily pass as a teenager, and Charley figures that the two of them can clean up running the underage-sex gambit on the lonely tourists. Janie agrees. The first guy they run the ruse on is a middle-aged widower. After seducing him, Janie changes into her teenage outfit, and Charley threatens him with the cops for seducing his sister. And so the cruel con begins.
Judy is an innocent 16-year-old when she is raped by her older brother—a drunken, vicious rape. It leaves her emotionally scarred, bitter and resentful, broken inside. She turns to alcohol to deaden her pain, but that only leads to a second rape. Judy begins to hate men. And as time goes on, she moves into a cabin on the California coast, and leads a solitary life. But life continues to deal her some cruel blows, and eventually her hatred of men takes a new turn. She begins to excise the pain by killing it. And now Judy is on her third murder. It gets a little easier each time.
EASY MONEY
Charley doesn’t expect more than a cheap meal when he stops at the roadhouse, so finding Janie is a real bonus. She is exactly the kind of girl he is looking for to run a blackmail scam down in Miami Beach. Janie is 23 but looks like she could easily pass as a teenager, and Charley figures that the two of them can clean up running the underage-sex gambit on the lonely tourists. Janie agrees. The first guy they run the ruse on is a middle-aged widower. After seducing him, Janie changes into her teenage outfit, and Charley threatens him with the cops for seducing his sister. And so the cruel con begins.
220 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2025
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Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
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October 1, 2026
This omnibus includes two early pseudonymous Robert Silverberg novels now published under the author's real name for the first time. Stark House is reissuing them in their line of vintage crime novels.
Easy Money (1964)
"Basically, what it is is a blackmail operation… Or extortion. Or something like that. I call it easy money."
Charley Simmons has put his own spin on the classic badger con in Miami Beach. He just needs to find the right woman to help him run it…
"What he was looking for was a girl who could seem mature and womanly wearing one kind of outfit, and young and immature dressed another way. He wanted someone who could seem adult while she was picking up suckers and taking them to bed, but who would look like a teenager when the time came to make the blackmail squeeze. This girl looked right. Charley couldn’t really tell how old she was. Past sixteen and under thirty, that was all he could be sure of."
Janey Vaughn is wild, broke, and up for anything: "It had been a heady, exhilarating feeling to toss twenty-dollar bills around like pennies. It was a wild and joyous thing to do, like stripping naked and getting loved by a whole regiment of movie stars in Times Square."
The only problem with their plan is the men Janey picks up have weird kinks, and soon Janey thinks one of them would be an improvement over sad-sack Charley…
Originally published as Flesh Pawns by Don Elliott.
Getting Even (1966)
“Here she was, not even knowing the man three hours, and already she was simultaneously figuring out a way of life that made her his mistress and a way of life that made her his executioner.”
Businessman Joseph Carter is midway from San Francisco to Los Angeles on the coast route, Highway One, when he spots a beautiful blonde sunbathing in the nude below. He pulls over, they make love, and then she drowns him…
You see, Judy Domanig enjoys her physical liaisons with men, but she enjoys killing them afterwards even more. She was assaulted by her brother when she was sixteen. She tried to sooth the pain of that trauma with strong drink, but that only led to another incident wherein a nice man at a bar took her home and raped her while she was semi-conscious…
Now, murder is how she evens the score. Her other victims: Charley Donoway, the man who broke her heart… Emory Blaisdell, the bumbling Berkley professor… and soon she has Lloyd Holbrook in her sights, a killer who may be just as dangerous as she is…
This 1966 thriller has the same plot as Lawrence Block’s 2011 novel Getting Off. However, rather than black comedy, Silverberg crafts a dour melodrama.
Originally published as Lust Demon by Don Elliott.
Easy Money (1964)
"Basically, what it is is a blackmail operation… Or extortion. Or something like that. I call it easy money."
Charley Simmons has put his own spin on the classic badger con in Miami Beach. He just needs to find the right woman to help him run it…
"What he was looking for was a girl who could seem mature and womanly wearing one kind of outfit, and young and immature dressed another way. He wanted someone who could seem adult while she was picking up suckers and taking them to bed, but who would look like a teenager when the time came to make the blackmail squeeze. This girl looked right. Charley couldn’t really tell how old she was. Past sixteen and under thirty, that was all he could be sure of."
Janey Vaughn is wild, broke, and up for anything: "It had been a heady, exhilarating feeling to toss twenty-dollar bills around like pennies. It was a wild and joyous thing to do, like stripping naked and getting loved by a whole regiment of movie stars in Times Square."
The only problem with their plan is the men Janey picks up have weird kinks, and soon Janey thinks one of them would be an improvement over sad-sack Charley…
Originally published as Flesh Pawns by Don Elliott.
Getting Even (1966)
“Here she was, not even knowing the man three hours, and already she was simultaneously figuring out a way of life that made her his mistress and a way of life that made her his executioner.”
Businessman Joseph Carter is midway from San Francisco to Los Angeles on the coast route, Highway One, when he spots a beautiful blonde sunbathing in the nude below. He pulls over, they make love, and then she drowns him…
You see, Judy Domanig enjoys her physical liaisons with men, but she enjoys killing them afterwards even more. She was assaulted by her brother when she was sixteen. She tried to sooth the pain of that trauma with strong drink, but that only led to another incident wherein a nice man at a bar took her home and raped her while she was semi-conscious…
Now, murder is how she evens the score. Her other victims: Charley Donoway, the man who broke her heart… Emory Blaisdell, the bumbling Berkley professor… and soon she has Lloyd Holbrook in her sights, a killer who may be just as dangerous as she is…
This 1966 thriller has the same plot as Lawrence Block’s 2011 novel Getting Off. However, rather than black comedy, Silverberg crafts a dour melodrama.
Originally published as Lust Demon by Don Elliott.
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